A/UX Links

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WTF is A/UX?

Apple came out with their own version of UNIX, called A/UX, in 1988. A/UX was their POSIX compliant system based on AT&T UNIX System V (various releases) and BSD4.2/4.3, with a lot features: STREAMS, TCP/IP, FFS, job control, NFS, YP, SCCS, enhanced printing, MacX X Window System and compatibility with SYSV/BSD/MacOS7 to name just a few. A/UX was a full featured UNIX System plus the best from MacOS7, it could run severel Macintosh applications and the usual UNIX stuff. The last version of A/UX, 3.1.1, was released in 1995. Many people think today A/UX is some kind of predecessor to MacOSX, but this is not true. There is little to none code in MacOSX that came from A/UX.

I have compiled a list with links to A/UX related sites. Some are good, some better, but all are worth a click. If you have found a website that is not listed here, send me a mail.

• ftp://ftp.geo.tu-freiberg.de/pub/incoming/ - Download A/UX CD-Images.
• http://www.aux-penelope.com/ - The author says: "The purpose of this site is to provide a brief introduction to A/UX, and to detail the procedure I used to install A/UX 3.02 and Apache webserver 1.3.19 on a Quadra 800 named Penelope.". He has a bunch of nice screenshots and a lot of additional information and some cool tricks. My new favourite A/UX site!
• http://www.nleymann.de/appleAUX/ - How to compile, some links (all listed here). Software: amaya, apache, binutils, bison, enscript, fileutils, flex, fvwm95, gawk, gcc/g++/libstdc++/gnu-ld/gnu-as, glib, grep, ghostscript, gtk+, gzip, imagemagic, gnu-install, jpeg-lib, lesstif, libiconv, libpng, libz, lynx, m4, make, mesa, mxgdb, pango, patch, perl, pkg-config, regex, samba, sed, ssh, tar, tcltk, teTeX, tiff, vim, wget
• ftp://ftp.mayn.de/pub/apple/apple_unix_2/ - A/UX Binarys from http://www.nleymann.de/appleAUX/ and other sources
• ftp://ftp.mayn.de/pub/apple/apple_unix - Jagubox Mirror. Jagubox was THE Source for A/UX-Fans but disapeared some Years ago. What you can expect: fixes, daemons, patches, infos, utilities, Y2K-stuff and much more
• http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html - How does A/UX look like? Here is the answer. The author steps also through issues like networking and compiling code
• http://www.jagunet.com/apache.html - Apache is slow? Check this page for performance hints (from Jim "Mr. Jagubox himself" Jagielski)
• http://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/aux/ - Another Jagubox Mirror
• http://www.jagunet.com/apache.html - Another Jagubox Mirror
• ttp://homepage3.nifty.com/toshi3/aux.html - Japanese is your preferred language? Then click here. Even if you never heard about the language, there are some Screenshots to look at
• http://www.wiskit.com/ - Not really useful content for A/UX-Fans but the Site REALLY runs A/UX for Mail- and Webservice. This is maybe the last "working" A/UX-Box
• http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/docs/apple/aux/ - Many useful A/UX-Docs
• http://aux.preterhuman.net/ - How to install A/UX and Screenshots
• http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html - Unix on Mac, a comparsion between A/UX and MachTen
• http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html - The first thing you have to do is formatting you SCSI-Drive, right? Ernst J. Oud's homepage has the Information, Software and Patches for you.
• http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/ - Gamba has a bunch of Information for your old Mac. Bootdisks, where to download MacOS, hardware infos and many links to related files. Cool :).
• http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/ - Cameron Kaisers A/UX installation, HOWTO-like, a bit short i think ;).

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